Oh good. Nothing to worry about...
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/07/fukushima-nuclear-cleanup-spent-fuel
Later this month the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), will begin removing more than 1,500 fuel assemblies from the pool, the first step in a decommissioning process expected to last
at least three decades.
On Thursday, the Guardian witnessed Tepco's preparations for an
unprecedented operation that the utility's critics claim has the
potential to end in disaster.
The risk posed to the reactor by earthquakes and other natural catastrophes has made removal of the fuel – 1,331 spent assemblies and 202 fresh ones – a matter of urgency. An event similar to the 9.0 magnitude
quake that crippled the plant on 11 March 2011
could collapse the fuel pool altogether, some observers say, leading to the
leaking of huge quantities of radiation into the atmosphere. Tepco,
however, insists the structure
could withstand such a quake.
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So, the plant didn't protect the reactor the first time. And they will say that the cracked fuel pool, already tottering high in the back, above the reactor, will hold for a second event?
Double=think is everywhere. If it is 95% chance of a 7.5 or above in three years..and 30 years to remove it all, that makes highly unlikely this will succeed.
They meant the West Coast of Japan.....right? RIGHT???